By Blythe Bernhard A security breach at BJC HealthCare left personal information on 33,420 patients potentially available to the public, a company spokeswoman said today. The patients’ medical records, names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, drivers license numbers, medical and insurance information were accessible through the Internet from May 9, 2017,…
Category: Exposure
IL: Security breach affects 46 employees, family members at Columbia College Chicago
Molly Wash, a campus reporter, reports that Share Point may have shared too much, but it’s not clear to me from the report how this happened. A data security breach resulted in the disclosure of the names and Social Security numbers of Columbia employees and their family members on IRIS, the college’s internal website. The…
UK: Up to 100 students’ info sent to the wrong parents
Keane Duncan reports: A mailroom muddle has resulted in a major data protection breach at a Teesside school. The personal details of up to 100 students at Hillsview Academy, Teesville , have ended up in the wrong hands. It involved ‘data checking forms’ – containing everything from contact details to medical history – being delivered…
UK: Council letters with personal details found dumped in bin bag on Washington street
Kali Lindsay reports: Council tax demand letters with confidential information were found dumped in a black bin bag on a street. Found near the Galleries Shopping Centre, Washington , the bag was filled with letters from Jacobs Enforcement Agents. The letters contained details of residents owing Council Tax to 18 local authorities, including Newcastle City…
Leon County Schools vendor’s data leak exposed 368,000 current and former FLVS students’ details, LCS teacher data, and more
Leon County Schools in Tallahassee, Florida has more than 34,000 students, more than 2,400 teachers, and a total of 4,300 employees. That’s a lot of students and teachers to notify when you discover that a third-party vendor’s mistake exposed their personal information for almost two years. But it’s not as much as the vendor, Florida…
In: NEET medicos details leaked
A section of students who wrote the NEET-PG 2018 examinations on January 7 has alleged that the personal data of over 22,250 students were leaked by the National Board of Examinations (NBE), which conducted the examinations. The students, who made the allegation in an e-mail sent to this newspaper, has also sent the screen…